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  • Before Your Market Goes Away, Take Your Assets and Go
    Sometimes markets decline and just get worse. This article looks at how to respond when that happens by taking your capital and moving to a better market, much as a venture capitalist would.
    Published 11Jan2009, viewed 299 times
  • Genetically Engineer New Hybrid Business Models That Deliver More Stakeholder Benefits
    Using genetic engineering, scientists can take qualities of a weed for hardiness and transfer those strengths into a food crop. In the same way, you can genetically engineer your business model by adding on all of the attractive qualities of complementary business models. If you combine enough business models, you'll have an amazing advantage that will deliver myriads of benefits to large numbers of people.
    Published 10Jan2009, viewed 216 times
  • Get Smart and Nurture More Prosperity: Add Knowledge for Your Stakeholders
    Most strategies call for being smart, efficient, and effective. Expand the timeline for delivering those qualities, and you see that improving the knowledge and opportunities of stakeholders is critical to long-term success. This article looks at examples of how this principle has been applied.
    Published 09Jan2009, viewed 226 times
  • Cast Bread on New Waters to Create More Benefits
    Business models can be adjusted to provide new types of benefits to more stakeholders. In the process, the value of the business model expands and social benefit, as well as organizational success, increases.
    Published 09Jan2009, viewed 244 times
  • Exercise the Right Leadership and Sprint to Business Victory
    What are the ways that you as a leader can ensure or destroy business success? You probably don't realize that most things you do don't make a difference. In this article, you will find some common self-sabotage problems that leaders bring on themselves and how you can avoid those mistakes.
    Published 09Jan2009, viewed 248 times
  • Take a Sprint on the Open Road to Add More Dimensions of Customer Value
    A strategy can tie you onto a path that leads nowhere. Long before that happens, you should look for new strategies that allow you to add more kinds of value for customers and other stakeholders. This article looks at how Huffy improved its performance as a bicycle marketer by stopping its manufacturing.
    Published 06Jan2009, viewed 202 times
  • The Advantages of Maximizing Natural Business Growth
    Growth can occur naturally . . . or it can be forced by using bad methods. This article suggests abandoning the forced methods that have led to the current global recession in favor of using natural growth opportunities to succeed.
    Published 23Jan2009, viewed 190 times
  • Test Your Improvement Options for the Enthusiasm They Generate and Pilot the Winners
    Powerful improved business models are created more often by organizations that have continually processes for developing them. Selecting such a process is an important strategic leadership task. Those who check for the enthusiasm such processes generate and pilot how easy they are to use will make better choices of processes to use.
    Published 27Dec2008, viewed 302 times
  • Build on an Initial Breakthrough to Develop Lasting Success: A Case History
    Education Management succeeds by rigorously make education more valuable to students, employers, and to its own efforts. By shaping its attention around those disciples the company was able to rapidly expand into being a national leader from being a single art training school.
    Published 14Oct2008, viewed 259 times
  • The Many Advantages of Starting First on Business Model Innovation
    Improving your business model has many practical advantages, but the most valuable advantages are more enjoyed by the person to first make the changes. This article explains what to focus on first with your continuing business model innovation.
    Published 07Oct2008, viewed 271 times
  • Refurbish Your Business Model to Gain More Profit and Market Share
    Weak profits and sales growth are more often caused by poor business models than by bad management. Re-look at your business model, and you may be able to make more improvements in a short time than occurred in the last several decades.
    Published 23Sep2008, viewed 250 times
  • Profit from Soaring Like a Nonprofit Eagle
    The best nonprofit organizations often innovate practices that for-profit companies should develop. Here's how to look for and benefit from those practices.
    Published 13Sep2008, viewed 256 times
  • The Pathway to Exponential Improvements
    Exponential improvements are available to those who can get over bad habits and start focusing on the right process to achieve breakthroughs.
    Published 09Sep2008, viewed 219 times
  • Be More Skeptical About Cost Reduction Tests
    Plausible ideas often contain huge errors. With the poor track record behind cost-reduction tests, you need to be more skeptical to find the right tests to implement.
    Published 12Aug2008, viewed 224 times
  • Pick the Right Price Tests and Profit Greatly!
    Price tests can create more problems than benefits unless you evaluate potential drawbacks in advance. This article poses questions to help you check for those issues.
    Published 27Jun2008, viewed 239 times
  • Provide Price Incentives for Customers to Help You Lower Costs
    Prices can raise profits by helping encourage customers to ask for things that are very expensive to deliver. This article looks at two examples of creating lower costs and higher profits by using this technique.
    Published 15Jun2008, viewed 333 times
  • Life Improves at 60
    We are used to thinking about the passage of time as being the equivalent of having our lives go downhill. But time can instead be our friend, helping us achieve what we could never do before.
    Published 05Jun2008, viewed 273 times
  • What's the Potential for Your Life?
    If you focus on creating 2,000 percent solutions, you can lead a longer, happier, and more affluent life. This article explores some of the dimensions.
    Published 04Jun2008, viewed 305 times
  • Lessons for Nearsighted Optimists
    Our limitations will melt away if we believe they will, keep the faith, and act on opportunities.
    Published 03Jun2008, viewed 305 times
  • How Well Will You Live?
    Life can change in a minute. How will you cope if current problems become worse?
    Published 22Apr2008, viewed 306 times
  • Unearth Vast New Sources of Profits Beneath Your Feet
    Even tradition-bound industries contain the potential to be much more successful when they follow profitable paths to business model innovation. The article contains an extended example of how one company did this.
    Published 15Apr2008, viewed 344 times
  • Be Ready for Much Tougher New Business Models
    Competition is shifting towards large business model changes that make earning a profit more and more difficult. In the process, many traditional management skills are becoming less important. Are you ready for the shift?
    Published 11Apr2008, viewed 298 times
  • Success Sequence for Exponential Profit Growth
    This article looks at the sequence by which company leaders learn to produce continuing business model innovation to expand their profits exponentially.
    Published 29Mar2008, viewed 349 times
  • Seek the Benefits of Coaching or Teaching Children
    Teaching or coaching children will develop your management skill faster than any other experience you can have. Keep it fun and you'll succeed. Remember that lesson for success with adults, as well.
    Published 22Mar2008, viewed 254 times
  • How Can You Replace Existing Bad Habits Concerning Trends?
    You not only have bad habits about relating to trends; you probably don't know what those bad habits are. This article shows you how to identify the bad habits and to replace them with better ones.
    Published 20Feb2008, viewed 515 times
  • Recognizing Common Stalls: No More Tilting at Windmills
    Irresistible forces by themselves don't threaten us, but combine irresistible forces with bad thinking habits and your progress will definitely stall. This article explores what bad habits to avoid.
    Published 13Feb2008, viewed 318 times
  • Drive Growth with the Windmills of Your Mind
    Breakthrough solutions are much more valuable than seeking incremental improvements in operations. Combine those breakthroughs with powerful external forces, and the growth benefits can be like being propelled into space aboard a powerful rocket.
    Published 21Jan2008, viewed 375 times
  • Problems Caused by Irresistible Forces: Causes and Solutions
    Irresistible forces are only a problem because we have bad thinking habits about how to relate to the forces. This article describes what irresistible forces are and encourages readers to identify their bad thinking habits and eliminate those habits.
    Published 18Jan2008, viewed 337 times
  • Helpful Metaphors for Achieving Irresistible Growth
    Most organizations do well when the market environment is gentle. But let the harsh winds of change arrive, and the organization huddles to avoid their influence. The irresistible growth organization will make good use of all environments. This article provides two metaphors to explain how that result can be accomplished.
    Published 17Jan2008, viewed 446 times
  • Choose an Always-Win Strategy Like Warren Buffett Does
    Irresistible forces tend to make progress slow. But if we embrace the forces by anticipating their potential effects, we an employ strategies that always put us ahead by using the power of the forces.
    Published 16Jan2008, viewed 327 times
  • Join Forces: Don't Fight the Irresistible
    Most businesses are constantly buffeted by forces outside of their control like weather, the economy, changing government regulations, currency shifts, and new technology. This article explains that this problem requires hitching one's wagon to take advantage of the forces rather than fighting against them.
    Published 15Jan2008, viewed 346 times
  • What New Uses and Adjustments Will Delight Users of Your Offerings?
    Offerings are often designed inside the imaginary head of an engineer, technician, or other technical person. The real world is often quite different than expected. Look to the problems and solutions that are already going on to find ways to improve your offerings and usage.
    Published 22Dec2007, viewed 367 times
  • Who Else Needs Your Products or Services?
    One of the fastest ways to grow profits is to find new classes of customers for your offerings. This article describes a process and questions you can use to unearth such new profitable prospects.
    Published 21Dec2007, viewed 366 times
  • Profitably Go Beyond the Scope and Concept of What You Do Now
    Most businesses and nonprofit organizations focus on too narrow a way to serve customers and beneficiaries. They should look around to see what else might be done that would be very efficient to offer at low cost that people want.
    Published 20Dec2007, viewed 352 times
  • Expand Sales by Reducing the Cost to Use Your Offering
    Customer costs begin with the price you charge for your offering. While making your operating costs a little lower, you may be greatly increasing your customer's costs . . . making it expensive to deal with you. Cut your customer's costs, and you'll have more customers.
    Published 19Dec2007, viewed 369 times
  • Choose the Right Offerings to Expand How Much Value You Add
    In thinking about serving customers or beneficiaries better, it's important to appreciate the operational implications for costs of adding new offerings. This article contains a quantitative example of how choice of offerings can help or hurt operating efficiency.
    Published 13Dec2007, viewed 359 times
  • Choose the Right Offerings to Add Profits
    Mix of offerings is more important to profitability than many business people realize. Mix affects sales volume, profit contribution, and costs of operations and overhead. This article explains how to look at optimizing the combination of these factors in making mix changes.
    Published 12Dec2007, viewed 370 times
  • Deliver 20 Times More Nonprofit Benefits with the Same Resources, Time, and Effort
    Nonprofit organizations can deliver more benefits to beneficiaries when they improve their cost effectiveness in serving more beneficiaries by reducing both the costs to the organization and to the beneficiaries. This article has three examples of changing a nonprofit organization's business model to show how this can be accomplished.
    Published 22Nov2007, viewed 405 times
  • Unleash More Profits with Business Model Innovation
    Business model innovation can make a business more or less profitable by changing to whom, what, and where offerings are provided in the search for much larger volume of sales. This article shows the opportunities and pitfalls of these alternatives.
    Published 21Nov2007, viewed 358 times
  • Reach Best Seller Reading Levels by Taking the Road Less Traveled
    Many writers think that only the quality of their writing matters in creating a best seller. But applying the 2,000 percent solution process can exponentially expand their readership beyond what writing alone can accomplish. This article describes how anyone can become a business book writer who achieves the same reading levels as those with best sellers.
    Published 16Nov2007, viewed 354 times
  • Make One Plus One Equal 400 Times More Profits
    Choosing to combine ways to add 20 times more revenues and reduce costs by 96 percent can create 400 times more earnings for a company while an individual 2,000 percent solution may not even grow earnings by 20 times. This article explains why choice of paired 2,000 percent solutions to create is an essential element of a successful business strategy.
    Published 14Nov2007, viewed 358 times
  • Act Now to Escape Being Burned by the Hot Tin Roof of Complacency
    Complacency makes you satisfied with where you are and what you are doing. That's fine if you are sentenced to life imprisonment, but it's a bad mental state if you operate in a competitive business world. This article shows you how to shake off complacency and regularly deliver valuable breakthroughs that will make your organization more effective and forward looking.
    Published 13Nov2007, viewed 371 times
  • Discipline Yourself to Enjoy the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
    This article explains the value and importance of not only creating 2,000 percent solutions (ways of accomplishing 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources) but also repeatedly seeking to improve upon those solutions to make more exponential gains.
    Published 30Oct2007, viewed 342 times
  • Pave an Unstoppable Path to Breakthrough Success
    Unless you prepare a sound roadbed, the road you lay will soon become unusable. Preparation for creating breakthroughs teaches the same lesson: Getting organized in the right way determines your success. In addition, preparation builds confidence that you will succeed . . . helping create the breakthrough.
    Published 29Oct2007, viewed 398 times
  • Leading Breakthroughs
    Teams make most improvements. This article looks at how you can go from making ordinary improvements into accomplishing breakthrough, exponential progress by selecting the right team and leader.
    Published 23Oct2007, viewed 352 times
  • Turn Your Dreams of Perfection into Real Joy
    Daydreaming is fun, but living those daydreams is infinitely better. This article looks at how to turn your dreams of perfection into everyday joy of having that perfection.
    Published 18Oct2007, viewed 343 times
  • Conduct Your Organization in Ideal Ways to Make Beautiful Music
    Near-perfect performances are delivered by organizations all of the times. When we look closely at those examples, we can distill principles that can be used to guide near-perfect performances by our organization. Combine these principles into a new way of operating, and you'll soon have a breakthrough in effectiveness. This article shares two examples of how these breakthroughs can be accomplished.
    Published 13Oct2007, viewed 487 times
  • Imagine Ultimate Perfection to Help Shrink Your Work Week to Two Hours
    If you could accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources, you could finish your current job in two hours a week. Does that strike your fancy? If so, the key step in finding such productivity breakthroughs is identifying the maximum result that can be achieved with reasonable risk and resources, far beyond merely exceeding tomorrow’s best practices. This essay shows you how to identify that ideal maximum result.
    Published 20Sep2007, viewed 373 times
  • Be Aware of Where You Stand to Learn How to Accomplish 20 Times More
    Many bad habits that harm performance can be overcome by having measurements that your organization understands, pays attention to, and knows how to respond to. This essay explains how to create a universal understanding of how to use measurements to eliminate stalls and point the way to more rapid progress.
    Published 16Sep2007, viewed 492 times
  • Act Now to Accomplish 20 Times More!
    Danger from inaction is usually much greater than the danger from action, yet many people act as though the reverse is usually true. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain benefits from needed rapid action.
    Published 14Sep2007, viewed 330 times
  • Eliminate Steps, Simplify, and Automate Work Processes to Accomplish 20 Times More
    Work processes that needlessly involve people cause your organization and its stakeholders to suffer from delays, misunderstandings, high costs, and minimal effectiveness. Organizations should eliminate the bulk of these work processes and then simplify and automate what remains. These changes free time and resources for more valuable tasks.
    Published 13Sep2007, viewed 391 times
  • Are Your Words Failing to Help You Accomplish 20 Times More Improvements?
    Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That’s a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall, the most harmful bad habit you can have for delaying improvements. This article explains how you can be sure you are being understood.
    Published 20Aug2007, viewed 354 times
  • Dangerous Beliefs Harm Results and Deny 20 Times Greater Accomplishments
    Dangerous beliefs lead to harmful actions. This article identifies several dangerous beliefs and describes how to locate other such beliefs and eliminate them so your organization can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources.
    Published 18Aug2007, viewed 346 times
  • Identify Harmful Traditions that Keep You from Accomplishing 20 Times More
    This article examines the most powerful cause of complacency: the unquestioning certainty that nothing will change or should be changed. That certainty is encouraged by peaceful repetition over many years. You will learn how to identify when tradition should be challenged and abandoned for the good of the organization.
    Published 13Aug2007, viewed 347 times
  • Focus on Fast Ways to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    Lord Keynes once pointed at that in the long run we are all dead. Achieving more is most beneficial when it occurs rapidly. This article contains an example of how this principle might be applied by a publisher to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources.
    Published 20Jul2007, viewed 315 times
  • Your Schedule for Learning How to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    You can learn how to accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources if you follow a disciplined work schedule. This article outlines the most effective way to pursue that learning and to help others learn.
    Published 16Jul2007, viewed 338 times
  • Pick a Great Opportunity to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    Anyone can accomplish 20 times as much. But to take most advantage of that capability, you need to pick a worthy target. This article presents diagnostic questions that will focus you in a great direction.
    Published 14Jul2007, viewed 360 times
  • Avoid Complacency to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    After you achieve a 2,000 percent solution, complacency can become a problem. This article looks at creating more beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. Serving this wider, more successful population will, in turn, continually open up more ways to achieve additional exponential gains.
    Published 27Jun2007, viewed 416 times
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Repeatedly Focus on Improvements
    This articler develops ways to create mutually beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. In this chapter, we see how repetition of process improvements steps builds a powerful new habit that can be the foundation for continually expanding exponential success.
    Published 26Jun2007, viewed 360 times
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Implement Beyond the Future Best Practice
    This article is an excerpt from The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution and shows you how to accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources by exceeding the best of what someone else will introduce as tomorrow’s best practice in a timely and cost-effective way.
    Published 21Jun2007, viewed 308 times
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Focus on the Best Measures
    Measurement helps you achieve the most when focused on your organization’s most important processes and most valuable opportunities. This essay shows you how to decide where to apply measurements, what to measure, and how to use measurements to achieve exponential success.
    Published 19Jun2007, viewed 337 times
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Start by Understanding the Importance of Measuring Performance
    The losses caused by bad habits (stalls) that prevent rapid progress by accomplishing 20 times as much with the same time and effort can be overcome by having measurements that your organization understands, pays attention to, and knows how to respond to. This article explains how to create a universal understanding of designing and using measurements to eliminate stalls and point the way to more rapid progress.
    Published 16Jun2007, viewed 455 times
  • Hesitate to Procrastinate and Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    When danger from action is much greater than the danger from inaction, organizations are wise to take time to assess the situation before acting. Unfortunately, the reverse is usually true. Many organizations act as though their lives are on the line over situations where virtually any action will be rewarded compared to inaction. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain more benefits.
    Published 15Jun2007, viewed 355 times
  • Obliterate Bureaucracy to Speed Up Improvements by 20 Times
    Work processes that needlessly involve people cause your organization and its stakeholders to suffer from delays, misunderstandings, high costs, and minimal effectiveness. Organizations should eliminate the bulk of these work processes and then simplify what remains. These changes free time and resources for more valuable tasks.
    Published 14Jun2007, viewed 353 times
  • Hold Your Nose and Look into Opportunities Others Avoid to Make 20 Times Faster Improvements
    Our senses are finely tuned to reject anything that looks, smells, tastes, feels, or sounds different than what we prefer. In an increasingly complex and diverse global environment, organizations run the danger of overlooking great opportunities right under their noses and in front of their eyes because the opportunities do not fit the conventional ideal.
    Published 23May2007, viewed 479 times
  • Get Past Your Disbelief in New Possibilities to Break Through to Exponential Improvements
    People usually underestimate the potential value of the most important new information, technology, and ways of operating. This error occurs because the new information or resource unexpectedly makes untrue what has been undeniably true in the past. This essay looks at ways to seize advantages by appreciating the importance of new factors sooner than other people do.
    Published 20May2007, viewed 338 times
  • Overcome Harmful Traditions That Delay Improvements
    Age-old traditions cause us to develop the most deeply ingrained habits. Even when conditions change so that these traditions are harmful, most people will keep following the traditions anyway. In this article, you find out how to identify where traditions are harmful and how to establish helpful new traditions that reinforce helpful directions.
    Published 19May2007, viewed 315 times
  • Overcome Stalled Mind-Sets That Keep You from Accomplishing 20 Times More
    This article shows you how unproductive attitudes turn into habits that waste your time and keep you from achieving your full potenetial. You will learn how to identify those attidudes and change them for better ones. As a result, you can begin to build positive, new habits.
    Published 18May2007, viewed 360 times
  • Breakthroughs in Effectiveness: Use 2,000 Percent Solutions
    You can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and resources, or the same results with 1/20 the time and resources. This article describes examples of how these effectiveness-improving results have been accomplished.
    Published 16May2007, viewed 400 times

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